Locals needn't to look to the Caribbean country almost 1,500 miles away for a first hand account of the horrors from the 7.0 tremor. Members of the Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team were among the first responders to those who were trapped beneath the rubble.

The manager of a Frederick service station who gave away gasoline to induce customers to make donations to Haitian earthquake relief did not have permission to do so from the station's owners and has been charged with theft